Description

Job Description

Job Summary

Registrar is responsible for providing care of his/her patients (inpatient patients admitted in Intensive Care Unit) maintaining a high-level of professional performance in accordance with:

• Evidence based medicine
• Professional medical ethics and JCIA standards.
• Hospital medical by-laws.
• Laws of Ministry of Health in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and any other applicable regulations according to the departmental quality plan.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the NMC Hospitals and Clinics.

• Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges for both in-patients and out-patients.
• Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria.
• Conducts regular ward rounds on his own and/or as a team to formulate a multi-disciplinary treatment plan.
• Documents plan of patient management in a legible, accurate and maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patients medical records.

• Prepares all discharge summaries, death reports and special reports on related patients when registrar is not available or when advised by Head of the Department.

• Presents new admissions to the department through the daily morning reports when on duty when the registrar is not available.

• Assists Senior staff (Consultant) in performing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures to patients in his field of specialty.
• Supervises the Junior Staff in conducting their duties and responsibilities as designated by the department.

• Actively participates in department’s educational and training activities.

• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty.

• Assess and refers appropriate patients under his/her medical care to other appropriate medical facilities as well as accepting referrals of patients with medical problems in his/her field of specialty.

• Participates on the on-call rota of the department for patient care and admission.

• Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.

• Observes and upholds the patients of security, confidentiality and privacy.

• Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patients medical records.

• Supervises duties of registrar of the specialty

• Seeks the advice of the consultant whenever the condition of a patient merits further expertise.

• Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.

• Performs administrative, organizational or any other tasks as assigned by the Consultant In-charge or Head of the Department.

• Carries out any other assignments as directed by Hospital Administration and/or the department head and within the realm of his knowledge, skills and abilities.

Reporting to

• Head, Department of Internal Medicine
• Consultant In-charge ICU/CCU

• Liases with:

Consultants of his/her specialty, of other specialties within the department, Consultant of other departments, Nursing staff, other health care professionals, patients and their families.

Supervises

• Registrars, Residents, Nurses and other paramedical staff assigned to him.

Qualifications:

A minimum of:

EDUCATION:

Required

Either American Board/or Canadian Fellowship, or MRCP, or Equivalent.

Registration as Senior Registrar with Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

Desirable

Higher qualifications in his specialty, if any.

EXPERIENCE

• Required
• Minimum three (3) years experience Post Qualification
• Current valid license to practice medicine in the area of specialty.

• Desirable
• Additional experience in a sub-specialty.
• Academic affiliation.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Demonstrate leadership and administrative skills.
• Fluent in verbal and written English.
• Facility to speak Arabic.
• Exhibits professionalism and excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Is knowledgeable of the Medical by-laws.